Re: [Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-20 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 02:27:55 AM Jon Elson did opine: This sounds OT, but has a tie-in to EMC, as we are trying to be able to read a tape that has the last work on APT/360 on it. I have a CDC Keystone 9-track tape drive that appears to be working fine. I have a salvaged SCSI to

Re: [Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Wendt
On 03/19/2012 10:39 PM, Jon Elson wrote: This sounds OT, but has a tie-in to EMC, as we are trying to be able to read a tape that has the last work on APT/360 on it. I have a CDC Keystone 9-track tape drive that appears to be working fine. I have a salvaged SCSI to Pertec formatted interface

Re: [Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Jon Elson wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:39:20 -0500 From: Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] SCSI

Re: [Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-20 Thread Thomas Powderly
re: paper tape Jon, maybe of interest, DIY optical reader at least you could get the data http://www.msdsite.com/OLA/TR01/tr01.html tomp I think i have an old Olympus 'star wheel' reader, predates the 'wire finger' readers and way older than optical :)

Re: [Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Elson
Mark Wendt wrote: I think we have a few of those antiques in the museum here at the Lab... ;-) Jon, if you'd asked me that question 10 years ago, I would have had something for ya. You'd be amazed at some of the old stuff that's still running here. If somebody has a Keystone with

Re: [Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Elson
Thomas Powderly wrote: re: paper tape Jon, maybe of interest, DIY optical reader at least you could get the data http://www.msdsite.com/OLA/TR01/tr01.html tomp I think i have an old Olympus 'star wheel' reader, predates the 'wire finger' readers and way older than optical :) We are

Re: [Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-20 Thread Peter Blodow
Jon, I run Linux exclusively on ISA motherboards because I need to plug in some old encoder cards for ISA slots. Jon Elson schrieb: snip anything like that exists. I have found some ISA cards that were made, but really don't have much ISA motherboards available, and of course none that

Re: [Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-20 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 11:00 -0500, Thomas Powderly wrote: re: paper tape Jon, maybe of interest, DIY optical reader at least you could get the data http://www.msdsite.com/OLA/TR01/tr01.html tomp I think i have an old Olympus 'star wheel' reader, predates the 'wire finger' readers and

Re: [Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: I think Jon is talking about a different type of nine track. He has a nine track 1/2 magnetic tape drive with a Pertec interface and needs a Pertec to SCSI interface card because his doesn't work. This might be a similar drive: http://www.merry-xmas.net/9track/ I'm

[Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-19 Thread Jon Elson
This sounds OT, but has a tie-in to EMC, as we are trying to be able to read a tape that has the last work on APT/360 on it. I have a CDC Keystone 9-track tape drive that appears to be working fine. I have a salvaged SCSI to Pertec formatted interface converter that worked for a while, and I

Re: [Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-19 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 21:39 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: This sounds OT, but has a tie-in to EMC, as we are trying to be able to read a tape that has the last work on APT/360 on it. I have a CDC Keystone 9-track tape drive that appears to be working fine. I have a salvaged SCSI to Pertec

Re: [Emc-users] SCSI to tape interface

2012-03-19 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: It seems they have at least one here: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102716103 Maybe they could plug it in and read your tapes? I think they also had one on Time Tunel or the USOS Seaview. CDC 607 Does it have vacuum tubes in it? Almost